Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
If you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be tenable in your silence still, and whatsoever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue.
What man art thou, that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?
The young hero never tells his plans. They mature in the dark.
The first step toward vice is to go about innocent actions in a mysterious manner, and whoever likes secrecy sooner or later has reason to be secretive.[Le premier pas vers le vice est de mettre du mystère aux actions innocentes; et quiconque aime à se cacher a tôt ou tard raison de se cacher.]
Everyone has something to hide.
Everyone concerned in them has something to hide.